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Blog entry, November 5th 2003
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For most of you it has been a while since you last heard from me, so basically I just want to let everyone know what's been going on since I left Finland in September.
I spent two weeks of organizing and shopping back in Zurich, which was nice, but more stressful than relaxing. I also went for one amazing week to Anwerp in Belgium, where I visited my girlfriend Nora. It's a pretty cool city with lots of restaurants, bars and funky clubs. The weather is similar to London, so you better take an umbrella with you, in case you ever go there.
On October 18th I flew to Miami via London. I spent six days at a hostel in the city of the 2003 World Series winners, but unfortunately I wasn't there anymore to watch the parade. It was fun to watch the game on big screen TV though. Otherwise I didn't like the place at all!! Out of season, it was full of gay men and we got kinda paranoid, since every time a guy was looking at you, you started to think what he's got in his mind... But we managed pretty well in the end and one day the even had MTV's Latin Video Music Awards at the club across the street, so we had a chance to go and see a few chicks with fake boobs and nose-jobs... :-) The bottomline is, that it's really not the partytown everybody talks about, but I'll reconfirm that in about 6 months or so, when I'll go back for a couple of days.
Now I'm in Costa Rica, since about 10 days. I live with a tica family at Playa Flamingo, which is a beach resort in the northwest of the country. I'm going to school for four hours a day and the afternoons we spend at the beach or going on trips. The lifestyle is quite different, although the families got almost everything we've got too. Like big SUV's, microwave, TV's and even Playstations... Since it gets dark at around 17.30, there's much time to sleep and only on Wednesdays there's something like a party in a seaside bar about 15 minutes from my homestay. The beaches and especially the wildlife are amazing!! Geckos, Birds, Iguanas and other animals are everywhere (mosquitos too...) and right now, in spring, all the plants and trees are so green (it rains almost daily too, for one or two hours). Nevertheless it's really hot here and I envy anyone fighting the cold and scraping snow from the hood of the car... yeah, right!!!
I've met a few very nice people at school, from Switzerland and the States mostly, and we have lots of fun talking with each other, getting to know different habits and cultures (like Popcorn for breakfast...).
Next weekend we will travel to the highest (and still active) Volcano Arenal, which promises to be quite an adventure.
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